received his PhD in electrical
engineering
from Stanford University in 2008 focusing on parallel programming systems for
many-core processors. After that he worked for at Apple designing and
developing
the first implementation of the new OpenCL specification for heterogeneous
parallel processing on CPUs and GPUs. He is currently an assistant professor at
Uppsala University looking at parallel programming systems and
runtimes.

Mattias
Chevalier

holds a PhD in fluid dynamics and worked as an application
expert in Computational Fluid Dynamics between 2010-2011 at PDC and as a
coordinator at the Swedish e-Science Research Centre (SeRC) at KTH. Prior to
that he worked as a Senior Scientist at the Swedish Defence Research Agency
(FOI) working an various flow related problems among other things flow control
problems, laminar wing design, method and code development. Currently he
holds a position as a CFD engineer at Scania working on flow problems related to
underhood thermal management.

Björn Engquist

is
professor in
mathematics at University of Austin, Texas. Formerly, he has had
similar positions at Princeton University and the University of California, Los
Angeles. Professor Engquist is also a professor of Numerical Analysis and
Computing Science at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (KTH)
since 1992. He received his B.S. in 1966 and the Ph.D. in 1975 from Uppsala
University, Sweden. Between 1966 and 1985, he held positions at the Courant
Institute, the University of California at Berkeley, Stanford University, and
Uppsala University. He is the chairman of KTH Center for Computational Science
and Engineering and former director of Parallel and Scientific Computing
Institute (PSCI) at KTH and Uppsala University and the Center for Parallel
Computers (PDC), KTH. His principal research interests are the mathematics and
algorithms of scientific computing.

Thomas
Ericsson

is working at Chalmers University of Technology. He
is
an expert in high-
performance computing and numerical analysis, in particular in numerical linear
algebra.

Erik Hagersten

Uppsala
University, teaches courses in computer architecture. His research
focus is "Increase data processing speed through adopting architectures and
[coherent] data replication." He works in both academia and industry in Sweden
and the US, and has initiated a collaborative research program between Uppsala
University and Sun's Engineering in the U.S.

Niclas Janssonis a Ph.D. student in
numerical analysis at CSC, KTH
since 2008. He received his M.S. Degree in computer science in 2008 and
his Lic. Degree in numerical analysis in 2011 from KTH. His research is
focused on high performance adaptive finite element methods.

Erwin Laure

is the director of PDC-HPC.
Before
joining PDC in 2008 he was the Technical
Director of the EU funded project "Enabling Grids for E-Science in Europe
(EGEE)" working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).
After joining CERN in 2002 he worked on data management issues within the
EU DataGrid (EDG) project, became the Technical Coordinator of EDG, and
coordinated the middleware re-engineering activities in the first phase of EGEE.
He holds a PhD in Business Administration and Computer Science from the
University of Vienna, Austria. His research interests include grid computing with
a focus on data management in grid environments as well as programming
environments, languages, compilers and runtime systems for parallel and
distributed computing.

Pekka
Manninen

is the Head of Education & Outreach at CSC, the
Finnish
IT center for science, and an adjunct professor of physical chemistry at the
University of Helsinki. He obtained his Ph.D. in theoretical physics in 2004,
and has worked since then, before joining CSC in 2007, at the universities of
Helsinki and Århus and at the Helsinki University of Technology. His research
interests include petascale computing and utilization of non-x86 processor
technologies in HPC, and other interests include combat sports (kickboxing &
MMA), quantum mechanics, and animal rights.

Stefano Markidis

is a postdoctoral fellow at PDC-
HPC. He received a MS degree from
Politecnico di Torino and a PhD degree from University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. Before joining PDC-HPC, he worked as researcher at
the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory, and as capita selecta professor at the Catholic University
of Leuven. He received an R&D100 award as part of the developer team
of the CartaBlanca code. At PDC-HPC he is part of the CRESTA EC-FP7
project to investigate the suitability of new programming models to
the next generation supercomputers. His research interests include the
investigation of novel programming models for HPC, and innovative
algorithms for parallel computing.

Kaspar Müller
is a PhD student at the Computational Technology Laboratory at KTH since
2010.
Hi is working on adaptive finite element methods to compute flows in the
atmosphere and ocean.Niyazi Cem Degirmenci
is a PhD. student in department of numerical analysis, CSC, KTH since 2010.
working on adaptive fluid structure interaction simulations using finite element
methods.Mark Parsons
is Executive Director of EPCC and Associate Dean for e-Research within the
College of Science & Engineering at The University of Edinburgh. He joined EPCC
in 1994 as an Applications Scientist and was appointed to the role of
Commercial Manager in 1996 and subsequently Commercial Director. From
2001 to 2010 he was also Commercial Director the National e-Science Centre.
He was appointed to the role of EPCC Executive Director in 2011. His research
interests have included the application of HPC to manufacturing, Grid
computing, reconfigurable computing and most recently data intensive and low
power computing. He has led a large number of European Commission
Framework Programme projects from FP4 onwards. He currently coordinates
the PlanetHPC, APOS-EU and CRESTA FP7 projects. He holds a PhD in
Experimental Particle Physics, an MSC in Parallel Systems and a BSc (Hons) in
Physics and Digital Microelectronics.

Michael
Schliephake

started
working at PDC in January 2010. As a system
administrator, he is concentrating on the operation of PDC's HPC computer
systems. After spending several years as a software developer creating
engineering software, he began working in the area of HPC at the High
Performance Computing Center Stuttgart. There, Michael gained experience in
the installation and operation of cluster systems as well as in several projects
which were associated with the design and implementation of supercomputing
and grid infrastructures. These projects were the German D- Grid Initiative and
the European projects DEISA and PRACE. Furthermore, he brings with him his
past experience educating students in HPC. Michael obtained his qualified
engineer degree at the Technical University Leipzig.

Jonas
Yngvesson

has a MSc in Computer Science & Engineering
and a Tech Lic in Information Theory from Linköping University. After
graduating he worked ten years for Sectra AB in Linköping building distributed
systems for Medical Imaging. The last seven years he has been at Google in
Zürich, Switzerland. At Google he has worked on data storage layers,
infrastructure for large data processing, video analytics and online video for TV.